As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accurst, An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.

In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words.

In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,-- And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.-- Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night.

Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. -Baha'U'Uah.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Feast of Mark the Evangelist But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.

At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping, Where He hung, the dying Lord.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.